These start ups don't get the talent they need, because they purposefully don't hire the talent they need. Atleast three times in the past I've had recruiters t

These start ups don't get the talent they need, because they purposefully don't hire the talent they need. Atleast three times in the past I've had recruiters tell me these yet to be named start up's can't hire me because they hire from the IIT's only. In short don't bother to apply if you don't belong to our self congratulatory crowd. One time I was told this in an onsite interview, I had to tell them on their face if such was the case they need to tell me before hand, instead of wasting my time having me travel to their place. And the interview methods are so badly broken, you are only likely to hire mugpots who memorize math theorems and repeat them in interviews. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying algorithm knowledge isn't important, but these people aren't test your algorithm skills, they are testing your skills to repeat the algorithms you memorized. Honestly I don't know of any serious math problem worth solving can be solved in minutes, unless you already know about it(Or you are Terrence Tao or Gregori Perelman). Which in case your are not testing problem solving skills, you are testing how many problem solution sets the candidate has memorized. Now guess how people get around these interviews. Most people who ace these interviews are from so called elite colleges nearly spend all the time in the day on interview forums. Instead of actually working. And since they spend so much time there, they feel obligated to use that effort in switching jobs more often for better pay. This leads to a big crowd of people who abandon projects mid way only to hop from one company to another. All the while day productivity at offices being very low. Now if you are hiring such people why should you complain? You are getting exactly what you wanted. Hire for productivity and for people's commitment to make your projects and company successful. The results will follow.